Most in-form central midfielders in Premier League

The most in-form central midfielders in Premier League, ranked on Field Insider.

At a glance

K. Glebov of CSKA Moscow is the standout for raw talent across central midfielders in Premier League, with a Field Insider Rating of 38.6, and M. Petrov has been the form player this season, grading 43.9.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: K. Glebov has improved his Season rating most, up +34.4 on last season, while M. Petrov's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +9.2 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, M. Petrov of Baltika is the most valuable name in this group at 6.4.

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#	Player	Team	Age	Season	Rating
1	M. Petrov Central midfielder	Baltika	25	44204.9%	3634.7%
2	K. Glebov Central midfielder	CSKA Moscow	20	41529.2%	3915.6%
3	Ronaldo Central midfielder	FC Rostov	25	4053.3%	336.7%
4	U. Iwu Central midfielder	Rubin	26	3784.2%	331.8%
5	K. Shchetinin Central midfielder	FC Rostov	24	3537.9%	342.7%
6	Victor Sá Central midfielder	FC Krasnodar	32	3544.8%	1624.6%
7	S. Lončar Central midfielder	Akron	30	343.4%	1931.3%
8	H. Mrezigue Central midfielder	Dinamo Makhachkala	26	3424.3%	314.4%
9	I. Saavedra Central midfielder	FC Sochi	27	34482.8%	28±0%
10	V. Hodža Central midfielder	Rubin	23	3470.6%	355.4%
11	A. Mironov Central midfielder	FC Rostov	26	31	3018.5%
12	D. Vasiljev Central midfielder	FC Sochi	22	31	3210.9%
13	N. Titkov Central midfielder	Baltika	25	29123.4%	3227.7%
14	I. Petrov Central midfielder	Baltika	31	28239.8%	184.5%
15	I. Đakovac Central midfielder	Akron	28	27288.6%	237.9%
16	M. Mohebi Central midfielder	FC Rostov	27	2440.6%	277.8%
17	I. Belikov Central midfielder	Baltika	21	23	34
18	N. Glushkov Central midfielder	Dinamo Makhachkala	27	233.7%	299.1%
19	L. Tičić Central midfielder	Nizhny Novgorod	25	2374.8%	292.6%
20	E. El Moubarik Central midfielder	Dinamo Makhachkala	25	23	31
21	A. Arroyo Central midfielder	Rubin	26	2340.7%	2954.5%
22	K. Kravtsov Central midfielder	FC Sochi	24	2253.8%	292.5%
23	M. Mukhin Central midfielder	FC Sochi	24	2245%	299%
24	D. Shabanhaxhaj Central midfielder	Rubin	25	2116.1%	325.9%
25	K. Kuchaev Central midfielder	FC Rostov	28	2159.4%	2312.9%
26	M. Kramarič Central midfielder	FC Sochi	28	2137.9%	2215.4%
27	K. Khosonov Central midfielder	Akron	28	1938.6%	2230%
28	K. Zaika Central midfielder	FC Sochi	33	1718.5%	1126.6%
29	I. Kvekveskiri Central midfielder	FC Orenburg	36	1632.1%	109.5%
30	B. Jočić Central midfielder	Rubin	25	1519.4%	306.2%
31	R. Magal Central midfielder	FC Sochi	34	154.9%	828.2%
32	K. Nizhegorodov Central midfielder	Rubin	24	14191.8%	291.8%
33	A. Ivlev Central midfielder	Nizhny Novgorod	19	147%	31±0%
34	A. Mendel Central midfielder	Baltika	31	14	1511.8%
35	E. Smelov Central midfielder	Nizhny Novgorod	21	134300%	305.9%
36	A. Opoku Central midfielder	Nizhny Novgorod	21	13	30
37	I. Komarov Central midfielder	FC Rostov	23	1343%	309.7%
38	K. Bistrović Central midfielder	Akron	28	1223.5%	2024.1%
39	M. Kuzmin Central midfielder	Akron	30	1252.6%	1537.1%
40	Gerson Central midfielder	Zenit	29	1175.2%	1968.9%
41	A. Makarchuk Central midfielder	FC Sochi	30	1044.4%	1524.4%
42	Aleksa Đurasović I Central midfielder	Akron	23	1048.3%	2919.9%
43	S. Oganesyan Central midfielder	FC Orenburg	24	9250%	2911.9%
44	J. Marín Central midfielder	Krylia Sovetov	28	864%	2126%
45	D. Kuzyaev Central midfielder	Rubin	33	834.5%	966.3%
46	N. Ermakov Central midfielder	Nizhny Novgorod	23	657.7%	2710%
47	K. Maradishvili Central midfielder	Akron	26	51666.7%	242.4%
48	A. Shumanskiy Central midfielder	CSKA Moscow	21	435.7%	304.7%
49	A. Sutormin Central midfielder	Krylia Sovetov	32	483.7%	1138.2%